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Corporate FinanceESG and Impact

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Mr. Roberto Randazzo is responsible for the ESG and Impact industry. With a background in commercial and corporate law, Roberto has a consolidated experience in the area of regulatory and legal matters related to ESG criteria and the broader topic of sustainability. Advising on environmental, social and governance issues in the financial and business sectors, he has developed transversal expertise on impact finance, sustainable corporate governance and social innovation, assisting investment funds, benefit companies, B-Corps, and companies interested in generating positive and measurable impacts. For more than twenty years Roberto has also been involved in non-profit organisations, strategic philanthropy and social entrepreneurship, dealing with projects both nationally and internationally, with focus on emerging markets, and in particular those in Sub-Saharan Africa. He has always combined professional and academic activities, and is currently an Adjunct Professor at Politecnico di Milano and a member of the Extended faculty of the Graduate School of Management at Politecnico di Milano. Roberto is Emeritus Director of Global Alliance of Impact Lawyers (GAIL), Officer of the Business Human Rights Committee of the International Bar Association and Advisor of OECD. He is also part of the independent European Working Group of legal experts that has been established to draft a set of European Model Clauses to align international supply chain contracts with the scope of the proposed Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, building on the American Bar Association (ABA) Model Clauses, the UN Guiding Principles and the OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises.

Italian, English, Spanish

Member of the Milan Bar, Italy Officer of the Business Human Rights Committee of the International Bar Association Member of the scientific committees of Ashoka Italia, Salone della CSR and Social Impact Agenda for Italy

In 1994 he graduated in Law at Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy